It's quite a heavy bike and it does get tough on pedally rides but think that's partly due to my frame being a tad small. Descends and jumps amazingly well though. Fantastic bike for uk uplift days with 180mm travel and ok for trail centre day rides but perhaps a bit heavy for any sort of distance riding.

Have spoke to three owners with them so far up at the local riding spot and two had bought them as a first dh bike who both reckoned they were superb, and one who had just sold his and moved onto a transition which he reckoned was much better.